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Mai Yamani, daughter of former Saudi oil minister Ahmad Zaki Yamani strolls with her daughter through old Jiddah, where windows are latticed to shield the women from view. “I’m a Saudi woman,” she says. “I like my veil.”

—From “Women of Saudi Arabia,” October 1987, National Geographic magazine
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